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SAILING THE WATERWAYS OF RUSSIA’S NORTH

Irene Campbell-Grin, Self Publishing House

his unpretentious account of a 4,000-mile voyage through the Baltic and Russia’s inland waterways to the White Sea and the Kola Peninsula; round the North is their home. Campbell-Grin is not writing in her first language yet she eloquently tells of bureaucratic confusion, mechanical problems, bizarre happenings, and tiredness. This book expresses awe and wonder, friendship and unassuming courage.

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